“The tank farms are just for storing petroleum products; we are not refining there, so it will not be right if they say we are constituting health and environmental hazards. A tank farm is just like a filling station. The products are just there to be stored. Nobody ever complains that they live near a filling station.
“Some come to wait in case there will be the need for any tank farm to need extra trucks. It is just like a shopping mall and many taxi drivers parade the area; it is just the same. Those trucks are not owned by the tank farms alone, they are owned by many people and the body in control is the PTD. He said, “They need to document how these activities have impacted the community to ensure that either the people are evacuated or the tank farms are relocated, with the area cleaned, because residue from oil lasts long.
She insisted that it was necessary to chart a way forward to explore “the intrinsic principles of sustainable development”, adding that communities blessed with oil suffered “environmental injustice” in the hands of the fossil fuel industry.
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